Since Doctor Who arrived back on TV screens in 2005, many alien races have returned to haunt the Doctor’s travels. Old foes like the Daleks, Cybermen, Ice Warriors and Sontarans have once again had their grand schemes thwarted, …

There was no traditional Doctor Who Christmas special in the classic years, beyond a moment in 1965 where the First Doctor suddenly turned into the camera and wished viewers a merry Christmas at the end of “The Daleks’ …

As the new season of Doctor Who approaches, fans are wondering what kind of Doctor will emerge from the TARDIS. We’re being promised a darker, less chummy Doctor, but also a hugely enthusiastic and energetic one.

If you had to arrange the 11 Doctors in order of how old they appear to be in human terms, where would the Tenth go? Certainly the dignified First and haughty Third are at one extreme, with the Sixth and Eleventh not far behind, and at …

Note: some of these characters do appear in subsequent novelizations, comic books and audiobooks, but there is debate about whether they are part of the canon of Doctor Who fact, so we’ll stick to the TV stories to confirm whether …

We left off yesterday with the arrival of the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, in 1987, and then, just as things were looking promising, we went mysteriously quiet. It just seemed like the right thing to do.